Colombian Socialist Party

The Colombian Socialist Party was a socialist political party in Colombia, founded around 1860 by Marxist intellectuals in the country. The party held a minority of seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives, and it rivaled the more popular Colombian Liberal Party for control of the left wing of Colombian politics during the 19th century. During the course of the 20th century, the Liberal Party would adopt social democracy as one of its political ideologies, causing the Socialist Party's support base to shrink. The Socialist Party became defunct at some point after 1936.